Most of the deaths from COVID-19 have taken place in the quiet shadows, in care homes and hospitals hidden not only from private view, but from the loving gaze of family members. They did not spark protests or riots for they were cloaked in old age. Few of them were rich people or citizens with access to social-media megaphones. They have been, in short, mostly anonymous occurrences, assessed collectively.
Not only was Moore a member of the Greatest Generation, his walk around the garden to raise funds for Britain's National Health Service might well go down in the history books as one of his generation's last, great acts of beneficence.
He could be the last chapter in that book.
And historians will argue it was not an insubstantial contribution.
He raised in excess of $50 million for the cause of public health, sure, but he was also a human motivation machine spawning countless other walks, runs, jogs, and bake-offs.
In the U.K., he was not the face of the virus, but the face of the war required to combat its ravages. Most of those who have died were old. It was right that their spokesperson was one of their own.
One of the Greatest Continuing To Be The Greatest. --GreGen
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